The Truth about Stanley Kramer's Inherit the Wind
History is consistently used in films as a technique to teach the values and morals of events that occurred. But what's the point in teaching history through films when they are terribly fictional? In films, the director finds the best scheme to intrigue their audience only by changing the actual event to satisfy their interest. This is true for Stanley Kramer when he made the history of John Scopes and his "monkey trial" into a film called Inherit the Wind. Kramer knew the exact stereotypical "Hollywood history" his audience enjoyed. The trial itself had a series of conflicts, the main one being evolution vs. religion. Yet there was also a series of tensions throughout the movie, including the argument between individual vs. society. The same themes from Inherit the Wind can also be seen from the actual "monkey trial" event in Dayton, Tennessee. It is sometimes said that truth is stranger than fiction and according to this film,......
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